Garment-stay.



W. J. ROCHE.

GARMENT STAY- APPLICATION FILED was 22. 191

Patented Dec. 26,1916.

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UNITED STATES PATEN T FFICE.

WILLIAM J'. ROCHE, 0F MEADVILLE; J?ENNSYLl7'1 lNIlIa.L,-'*ASSIG'IIT(133. TOUPI-IE SPIREIJLA COMPANY, OF MEALDVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA,"A CGRPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA;

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 22, 1914. Serial No. 846,591.

I To all whom it may concern: 2

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. Roonn a resident of Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in GarmentStays, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wire garment stays and more particularly to corset stays.

The object of the invention is to provide a flexible wire stay which yields readily in all directions, in which the bending strains are distributed over a considerable length of wire, so as to avoid crystallization and deterioration of the metal and prevent the stay from taking a permanent set, in which the stay is reinforced along its edges, and particularly to provide a stay which is stronger and more resilient than prior stays and offers more resistance to bending strains.

The invention comprises the stay hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a face view of one form of stay embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is a cross section thereof on the line 22, Fig. l, and showing a modification; Fig. 3 is an edge view of the stay shown in Fig. 1; and Figs. 4 and 5 are face views of modified forms of stay embodying the invention.

The stay shown in Figs. 1 to 4 of the drawing is formed from a single continuous wire 1 which is bent back and forth into sinuous form to form a series of transverseportions 2 extending across from edge to edge of the stay, but may be formed of a plurality of wires, as shown in Fig. 5. Said transverse intermediate portions may be exactly or nearly normal to the length of the stay, but as shown are at an angle thereto. At each end each of the crossing portions 2 is bent to form a small loop or eye 3, the loops or eyes at the ends of successive crossings being connected at the edges of the stay by longitudinal connecting arched portions These pairs of connected loops or eyes and the arched portions 4 lie in staggered relation to each other, and the wire of the arched portions 4: is bent toward one flat side of the stay, as shown in Fig. 2.

The comparatively long crossing portions of the wire enable the stay to effectually withstand fiatwise bending stresses which "are taken up largely by torsion in the wire of the crossings, and the loops or eyes 3 and longitudinally extending arched portions 4. reinforce the edges of the stay and increase lts resistance to edgewise bending strains in both directions.

The intermediate crossings or portions 2 may be deflected from a straight path across more resistance to bending in one flatwise l 'atentedDec; 26, 1916.

the stay in any suitable direction. For exdirection than in the other. Or, if desired,

some or all of the crossings may be deflected toward one or both ends of the stay in its flat plane, to form a series of small loops or convolutions 5 lying along the middle line of the stay. This increases the total amount of wire in the stay and gives it ad ditional resiliency and also strengthens the crossing portions of the wire due to the arched form of the loops or convolutions 5.

What I claim is:

1. A garment stay, comprising wire bent back and forth to form a series of transverse intermediate portions extending from edge to edge of the stay, adjacent intermediate portions at the edges of the stay being connected by arched portions extending longitudinally of the stay and out of the plane of the intermediate portions, and all of which arched portions being on the same face of the stay.

2. A garment stay, comprising wire bent back and forth to form a series of transverse portions or crossings extending from edge to edge of the stay, the wire at the ends of the crossings being deflected toward the center line of the stay to form a loop or eye at the end of each crossing, the loops or eyes at the ends of successive crossings being connected by arched portions extending longitudinally of the stay and out of the plane of the intermediate portions, and all of which arched portions being on the same face of the stay.

3. A garment stay, comprising wire'bent back and forth to form a series of transverse portions or crossings extending from edge to edge of the stay, the wire at the ends of the crossings being deflected toward the center line of the stay to form a loop or eye at the end of each crossing, the loops of the stay between said rows of arched 10 or eyes at the ends of successive crosslngs portlons.

being connected by arched portions extend- In testimony whereof I have hereunto ing longitudinally of the stay, said portions set my hand. being arranged in two parallel longitudinal WILLIAM J. ROCHE rows, the intermediate portions or crossings 7 being deflected out of the plane of the stay Witnesses:

from a straight line to form a series of loops T. F. CHARLTON, or convolutions lying along the center line ADELAIDE ROCHE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,

. Washington, D. G. 

